Another - heavy return of merchant ships sunk by submarines emphasizes
the King's request to his people. The Admiralty reports for the week ending on Sunday last the loss of thirty-eight large and thirteen small British merchantmen and eight fishing- boats. This is not quite so bad as the return for the previous week, recording the loss of forty large and fifteen small vessels, but it is bad enough. Twenty-four merchant men beat off their treacherous assailants, as twenty-seven ships had done in the preceding week. '411e enemy have marked the advent of a new era in naval terrors by successfully launching a torpedo from a seaplane against the British steamer Gene off Aldeburgh on Tuesday. One of the attacking seaplanes was destroyed by the 'Gem's' gulls. Fortunately seaplanes can only be used in the narrow seas.
